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Fake webmail account upgrade emails

Recently I’ve noticed a few fake webmail account upgrade emails floating around. If you see an email with the info below, please ignore and DO NOT REPLY as they are not from us. Here’s an example of the email I received:

Attn: WEBMAIL ACCOUNT Subscriber:

This mail is to inform all our { E-mail Account Users} that there we will be upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a Subscriber of our webmail e-mail account users, you are required to send us your Email account details so as to enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box. Furthermore, be informed that we will be deleting all E-mail Account that is not functioning so as to create more space/room for new user. so you are to send us your original mail account details which are as follows:

*User name:
*Password:
*Date of birth:

Failure to do this will immediately render your email address/account deactivated from our database. You can also confirm your email address by logging into your webmail account if it’s still active before sending it to us.

Thank you for using our Webmail Email Account!

Yours In Service.
The Webmail Email Support Team
Webmail Admin Service.

Upgrading from IIS/ASP to Apache/PHP

I’ve always lent more towards OpenSource software as I find it to be more standardized and reliable. If you run into problems there are literally thousands of articles where people provide detailed and helpful information and what’s even better is that it’s all free.

One such example can be found on Sebastian’s Pamphlets blog where he discusses how to change your IIS/ASP pages to Apache/PHP.

So if you’re a Windows / ASP developer and you want to expand your skillset (and possibly even change your focus) then you can’t go past the article above.